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At the foot of the Rapids we lodged all night at the house of a Canadian trader, who treated us with great respect, and, though a tavern-keeper, would receive no pay from us for our supper, lodgings, or breakfast. A considerable encamp-ment of Indians, who had come to trade with him was near his house. They were very merry for a great part of the night, keeping up a con-tinued sound of their favorite instruments of music, amongst them the drum and fife. The former is made of part of the body of a hollow tree, with the ends covered with deer skin, upon which they beat with sticks, the latter they make of reed into which they bore holes some-what in imitation of a fife. The foot of the Rapids is rendered well known in American his-tory, as having been a place of frequent ren-dezvous by the Indians, previous to their defeat by General Wayne. Here also the Indians burnt many of the white men who were taken prisoners by them. To this place Wayne marched, and here he met and defeated the Indian army. About eight miles above the foot of the Rapids and near the centre of the river, in a very rapid situation, is a noted rock called by the Cana-dians, Rochede Bout, (or standing rock.) This rock is about thirty feet in height above the surface of the water, and the same in diameter. The top has the regular appearance of the roof of a house, and the body of the rock is circular. Its appearance is additionally handsome from